Street Legends Vol. 2

Let recognized prison journalist and gangster chronicler Seth Ferranti aka Soul Man take you on a journey to the criminal underworld. Street Legends, Vol. 1, he mesmerized readers with the exploits of the Death Before Dishonor six – Supreme, Wayne Perry, Anthony Jones, Aaron Jones, Pistol Pete and Boy George. Now in Street Legends, Vol. 2, he introduces the Original Gangsters. More

Ice-T spit, “Gangsters don’t die, they multiply: and to keep it all the way official read about the street’s real legends. The Original Gangsters that inspired BET’s American Gangster series, all those Hollywood gangsta flicks, the litany of true crime street documentaries and gangsta rappers galore. The Black Gangster is in effect. Taking over where the Italian mobsters and Colombian cocaine cartels left off. Street Legends gives you their stories. Read about the black John Gotti’s and Pablo Escobar’s. True to life and hood to hood. Real recognizes real. And this book will give you the truth.

Let recognized prison journalist and gangster chronicler Seth Ferranti aka Soul Man take you on a journey to the criminal underworld. Where O.G.’s go hard and suckers get exposed. In Street Legends, Vol. 1, he mesmerized readers with the exploits of the Death Before Dishonor six – Supreme, Wayne Perry, Anthony Jones, Aaron Jones, Pistol Pete and Boy George. Now in Street Legends, Vol. 2, he introduces the Original Gangsters. Men of honor, respect and violence. Street stars and hood icons.

The Black Caesar, Frank Matthews, Original King of New York. Peanut King, Lord of B-More’s heroin trade. Michael Fray, the Ambassador of Chocolate City. The Boobie Boys of Miami and rapper Rick Ross fame. Short North Posse, the Columbus, Ohio crew that Triple Crown publisher Vickie Stringer snitched on, and the New World, Islamic bank robbers from Newark, New Jersey. Read these tales of chaos, murder and mayhem that embody elements of cash money, debonair style, brutal diplomacy, unchecked violence, vicious betrayal and brotherly unity.

While serving an LSD kingpin conviction, Seth Ferranti started a successful writing career and earned a Masters degree from California State University. His raw portrayals of the New York crack era gangsters gained the attention of Don Diva and VICE, who he began writing for. From prison he established Gorilla Convict, a true-crime publisher with books like Street Legends and Supreme Team. Seth built a writing and journalism career after landing on the US Marshals Top-15 Most Wanted list. His incredible story has been covered by The Washington Post, The Washington Times, and Rolling Stone.

Since his release he has worked hard to launch GR1ND Studios, where true crime and comics clash. GR1ND Studios is bringing variety to the comic shelf by way of the American underground. These groundbreaking graphic novels tell the true story of prohibition-era mobsters, inner-city drug lords, and suburban drug dealers. Penned by true-crime historians and urban fiction authors, the works are raw and authentic.

Seth is also doing short films, Easter Bunny Assassin (http://www.sethferranti.com) and documentaries, White Boy (http://www.sethferranti.com/#!white-boy-rick/d2qyo). Expect to see a lot from in in the next couple of years. GR1ND is debuting six comics in 2016, Supreme Team and Confessions of a College Kingpin created by Seth Ferranti, Drug Lord created by the imprisoned urban fiction writer Kwame Teague and Gangster by mob historian Christian Cipollini. With more titles like that to come including Wahida Clark’s Swag and Al-Saadiq Bank’s Caught Em’ Slippin’. Check out this video that talks about what Seth and GR1ND are doing. (www.youtube.com/watch?v=zf1lLLHDsGE)